When 80% of every California police department's time is spent perpetually clearing camps so that people from one town can move to another, forever, there will be historic amounts of new funding for cops.

They will light piles of money on fire before they build public housing.

A town I used to live in in the Bay Area, Millbrae, filed a suit against the state because they felt the tiny program Project Homekey, meant to convert disused hotels into transitional housing, violated Article 34 of the California State Constitution, which bans public money being spent on housing.

I don't have a cliche reply appropriate for this America is an evil place.

California got away with having this like "progressive" or whatever reputation for a long ass time, I think mostly because the way most of us non-Californians experience California is mediated by media images of Hollywood, it's excesses and self-promotion.

15 years ago, these sort of "rubes" who bought this image would ask people like me why I don't move there, where it would be more accommodating (in their mind) of my values (I am against liquidating poor people and also want to protect environmental resources). I grew up in a culturally mediated area with a national reputation management strategy, so I knew California was different than it's reputation.

anyway, I gotta say, there are way less rubes these days when it comes to California, and not because everybody suddenly became great critical thinkers and historians, either lol.

Given that people depend on what meager public services that funding barely goes to, this is collective punishment for refusing to take part in cruelty

What a vile state which i guess there are a lot of over at

time's running out to make sure the bell riots happen in 2024 and newsom's a star trek fan, mfer!

Sweetie, it's simple, we need to round up all the homeless and make them compete in the hunger games or running man for my amusement. Last one left standing gets an apartment

RIP Gruesome Newsom's national political ambitions

Jee, I wonder what conditions will be if funding is removed. Certainly won't create even more opportunities for people to be out on their ass.

Small-business tyrant.

This is the true form of supermajority

He was on the news in his little worker shirt with the sleeves rolled up hauling away a homeless person's belongings. Then they do a nice little interview where he wildly waves his arms around feigning exapseration at why more people aren't rolling up their sleeves to help him fix this unsightly problem. And then he pulls the ol' "Joe Biden angry man yelling" out of nowhere saying he will simply not fund any city who doesn't want to go along with his plan to eradicate the homeless by destroying what little they have and shuffling them around to other states.

Just in time to make the Bell Riots a reality!